Dr. Bellavia's Helpful Free Articles
Managing Growth Articles
"Orthodontics, the Ideal Life"is an ideal day in the life of a well organized, happy, and productive orthodontist that has worked with Dr. Bellavia.
"Marketing Your Practice" Dr. Bellavia discusses what you have to consider to market your practice internally and externally.
"Low-Cost Marketing That Works" Dr. Bellavia details the most common and successful ways of marketing your practice.
"Selling Orthodontics" Dr. Bellavia discusses what every TC and doctor should know before selling the case at the exam visit.
"Acceptable Numbers for Orthodontic Fees" Dr. Bellavia provides a practical chart to follow to avoid quoting treatment fees that will be naturally rejected.
"Dealing With Transfers Into Your Practice"; Dr. Bellavia discusses the pros and cons of accepting transfer patients, which can be a boon or a bust for your practice.
"Sophisticated Scheduling" Dr. Bellavia discusses what it takes to design a productive, DR-Tx-Time scheduling system.
"Completing Run-On Cases", Dr. Bellavia discusses how to reduce or eliminate your run-on cases, which can burn up your resources and clog up your schedule.
Practice Management Articles
"Goal-Oriented Practice Management" Dr. Bellavia discusses the three aspects of setting and attaining your goals.
"Automatic Practice Management" Dr. Bellavia details how to set up your team responsibilities to have your practice manage itself.
"Teamwork, Relationships and Personality" Dr. Bellavia shows how your team member's personalities affect their jobs positively and negatively.
"Caution! Staffing Viruses!", Dr. Bellavia discusses how to keep your team from being infected with viruses that can destroy your practice and how to get rid of them once infected.
"Daily Cash & MISC Charge Control", Dr. Bellavia presents a fool-proof way to control your collections; just because you have a computer it doesn't mean that your collections are under control.
Miscellaneous Articles
"The 9 Aspects of Successful Practice Transition", Dr. Bellavia discusses what you need to consider to have a successful practice transition.
"Current Trends in Efficient Orthodontics" Dr. Bellavia identifies the pros, cons and efficiencies of current trends in orthodontics.
"Efficient Tx Mechanotherapy, Part-I", Dr. Bellavia discusses the built in intelligence of archwires to better treat your cases, based on a study by others.
"Efficient Tx Mechanotherapy, Part-II", Dr. Bellavia considers proper bracket placement, its pitfalls and efficiencies.
"Managing Without Managed Care" Dr. Bellavia cautions you about managing this source of patients should you dip into this market.
"Minimal Standards for Orthodontic Consulting", Dr. Bellavia discusses what you should expect from consultants to get what you pay for.
